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Internment of the Japanese

By bs18417

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Many Japanese language schools closed

  • California revokes liquor license held by non-citizen people of Japanese ancestry

    December 30 – California revokes liquor license held by non-citizen people of Japanese ancestry.

  • Executive Order 9066

    February 19 – FDR signs Executive Order No. 9066, authorizing Secretary of War or military commanders designated by Secretary to establish ‘military areas’ and exclude therefrom ‘any or all persons’.

  • WCCA acquires Santa Anita as a temporary detention center

    March 20 – WCCA acquires Santa Anita as a temporary detention center.

  • WCCA acquires sites for temporary detention centers in California at Merced, Tulare, Marysville, and Fresno

  • WDC announces completion of the removal of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes

  • D-Day

  • WRA announces that all internment camps will be closed before the end of 1945

    December 18 – WRA announces that all internment camps will be closed before the end of 1945

  • Hiroshima Bombed

    August 6, 1945

  • Nagasaki Bombed

    August 9

  • WDC issues Public Proclamation No. 24 revoking all individual exclusion orders and all further military restrictions against persons of Japanese descent

    September – September – WDC issues Public Proclamation No. 24 revoking all individual exclusion orders and all further military restrictions against persons of Japanese descent..

  • All WRA internment camps are closed except for Tule Lake Center

    Oct 15 – Dec 15 – All WRA internment camps are closed except for Tule Lake Center

  • Tule Lake Segregation Center closed

    March 20 – Tule Lake Segregation Center closed

  • WRA program officially terminates

    June 30 – WRA program officially terminates